In addition, Allure bookings director, Ro Penuliar, talked to the British import about life, modeling, and the hazards of mint lip balm. Keep on reading to be both amazed — and inspired.

On recently speaking out about abuse in the modeling industry: “The conversation needed
to open up beyond just Terry Richardson [the photographer accused of sexual harassment and exploitation]. I hope that it brings about a change. Fashion needs to be more open about the darker ways in which we operate.”

On more literal eye-openers: “

gets out all your grim, grungy bits, like the bags under your eyes. That and a little bit of lip balm on your lids and suddenly you look miraculously fresh. It’s horrible when you get a mint-flavored lip balm and you put that on your eyes, though. You’re like, Ayyy, it burns! I’ve done that.”

Black silk jacket by Louis Vuitton.

100 Years of Eyeliner

On visits with Granny: “My granny had this old-school dressing table with powder puffs and used to do me up in makeup. My mom would pick me up and be horrified: ‘You’ve turned my child into a pageant queen!’ Later, when I was a teenager, I used to do big, grungy, dark eyes, like I’d been punched in the face.”

On social media: “It has changed modeling in a really positive way. It enables you to direct the way in which you’re perceived by the public, and it gives you a certain agency over your character. It’s simultaneously incredibly superficial and a more truthful representation of the person. You have to use it in a positive way rather than it just being a kind of nothingness.”